craftgrrl | No more pictures and stuff

Original first paragraph:

Been a while. A very, very long while. Since ramping up the online aspect of my business, I have been wasting time on Twitter and Facebook to generate traffic to my webstore, AND I also just took a wage job for the next few months. I can't stand not having enough time for the stuff I WANNA do. I've missed this community. I have some pics uploaded to Flickr now, a lot of them things I made for sale, some of them already sold at my artisans' market. (We graduated this year from being just a farmers' market to "farmers' market and artisans' fair"... and you should see the scrap metal sculptors' stuff! Those people are AWESOME!)

Another edit:

Sorry to have tread on people's toes. It was late last night, I had some time to browse LJ, and I had pictures ready to post. I got enthusiastic about what I do, and how much of it I'd done, and thought I'd catch people up on what had happened in my life since I last showed my nose here, and then I got taken completely off-guard late at night after a long day's work on my feet and didn't use my best judgement when trying to express how shocked and yes, a little bruised, that I got a moderator warning... and look what I started.

Mod: I'm sorry. You were doing your job, and my post was all about my business, but that's how I channel my creativity now. My kids are too old to want to wear what I make, nobody else in my family and Real Life circle of friends appreciates handmade things the way this community does, and it's come to the point where I have to make it pay for itself. Judging by the watermarks on a lot of the pictures around here, I think a lot of us are at that point - and they're better at the photography than I am. (I need to speak to someone about that... :-)) I do not shill in

craftgrrl or any other "show-off" communities - that's why I was absent for so long. I had to focus my attention on the business side of it. I still don't think I was skirting any rules, especially in a "not cool" way, I still feel a little bruised about having been misinterpreted, but I understand how you have to be on the watch for that. And I'm not the mod here.

post-mod Commenters: I'm sorry for what I started. Don't flame.

ilea 's doing her job, and doing it vigilantly. People who know me know the intent of the original post which now no one else can see, and they don't deserve to be flamed. People who are arguing in support of the mod are also defending what they want in this community, and face it: I've been away too long in a community with a high turnover.

I'll start over again after Hallowe'en so it doesn't look like I'm shilling my Hallowe'en costumes here. Because yes, some of what I create is going to end up on my table, and I will be enthusiastic about what I create, and will want to share what I put into it, what I got out of it, and where it ended up. For me, everything needs a biography, and some of these pieces will have closed chapters.

Time to change the threads on the embroidery machine again. If the apology's a little rough, it's because I didn't have time to edit it properly.